Montxo Armendáriz

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Montxo Armendáriz , actually Juan Ramón Armendariz Barrios , (born January 27, 1949 in Olleta , Navarra ) is a Basque film director and screenwriter .

Life

Armendáriz grew up as the son of a blacksmith in the rural Basque region before moving to Pamplona with his parents in 1955 at the age of six . There he attended the Ècole Pies and from 1958 the Collège des Salésiens . After completing his military service, he first studied electrical engineering and was also a lecturer in this subject at the Instituto Politecnico de Pamplona. Interested in film work, Armendáriz began making his first short films and was involved in pro-Basque protests. He also wrote protest songs. In early 1975 he was arrested as a result of protests against the killing of Basque activist Salvador Puig Antich and spent a month in prison. The trial against him did not take place, however, as he was pardoned as part of an amnesty following Francisco Franco's death.

From the late 1970s, Armendáriz devoted himself mainly to film, becoming a member of the Basque filmmaking community, Euskal Zinegille Elkartea , in 1977 . In the same year Armendáriz financed his first short film Barregarearen dantza through the cooperative Txantreako Lankideen , founded in 1979 by friends and acquaintances , which was awarded at the Festival Internacional de Cine documental y cortometraje ZINEBI in Bilbao . Other short films such as Ikusmena (1980) - also awarded at the ZINEBI festival - and Paisaje (1980) were made. From 1980 Armendáriz worked again as a teacher for electrical engineering parallel to his film work, first at the Lycée Polytechnique de Rentería and in the school year 1981/1982 at the Lycée Polytechnique in Pamplona. Then he took a year off so that he could fully devote himself to the film. Armendáriz 'had already made a short documentary and a long film in 1981. In 1984 Tasio made his debut feature film about the life of a charcoal burner in rural Navarre . Tasio was nominated for the grand prize at the Chicago International Film Festival and won a Fotogramas de Plata for best Spanish film in 1985 .

Armendáriz's second feature film, 27 Hours , was released in 1986 and has been shown and awarded at numerous festivals. Among other things, the youth drama about the young drug addict Jon and his clique (including Antonio Banderas in the role of Rafa) won the Silver Shell of the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián . The film was also nominated for a Goya in the Best Picture category. The 1990 film Letters from Alou about a Senegalese illegal immigrant in Spain also won numerous festival awards, including the Golden Shell of the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián and a Goya for Best Original Screenplay.

Finally, with Treffpunkt Kronen-Bar (1995), Armendáriz devoted himself to a literary model: He filmed José Ángel Mañas ' novel Die Kronen-Bar , a milieu study about the life of young people in Madrid. Finally, in Secrets of the Heart , Armendáriz reflected on his own childhood in the country. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 1998 as a Spanish contribution .

With Oui Oria , Armendáriz founded his own production studio, Oria Films, in 1999, with which he produced his next feature film, Silencio roto (2001). After the documentary Escenario móvil , Armendáriz devoted himself again to a literary film adaptation with Obaba , for example the film is based on the short story collection Obabakoak or the goose play by Bernardo Atxaga . In No tengas miedo 2011 Armendáriz put the story of a young woman in the foreground, who wants to come to terms with her childhood abuse. Armendáriz was also involved as a guest director in the film #Sequence in 2013 , in which a total of 21 directors participated. In addition to Julio Médem , Armendáriz is considered to be one of the most important Basque directors of the present.

Filmography

  • 1979: Barregarearen dantza (short film)
  • 1980: Ikusmena (short film)
  • 1980: Paisaje (short film)
  • 1981: Ikuska 11 (short documentary)
  • 1981: Carboneros de Navarra (short documentary)
  • 1984: Tasio
  • 1986: 27 hours (27 horas)
  • 1990: Letters from Alou (Las cartas de Alou)
  • 1995: Meeting point Kronen-Bar (Historias del Kronen)
  • 1997: Secrets of the Heart (Secretos del corazón)
  • 2001: Silencio roto
  • 2004: Escenario móvil (documentary film)
  • 2005: Obaba
  • 2011: No tengas miedo
  • 2013: #Sequence (short film)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chema Pérez Manrique: Le cinéma de Montxo Armendariz: arrêt sur image . Presses Univ. du Mirail, 1999, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Chema Pérez Manrique: Le cinéma de Montxo Armendariz: arrêt sur image . Presses Univ. du Mirail, 1999, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Montxo Armendáriz . In: José María García Escudero: El cine español, desde Salamanca (1955/1995) . Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación y Cultura, 1995, pp. Lxiii.
  4. ↑ Chema Pérez Manrique: Le cinéma de Montxo Armendariz: arrêt sur image . Presses Univ. du Mirail, 1999, p. 17.
  5. ↑ a b Chema Pérez Manrique: Le cinéma de Montxo Armendariz: arrêt sur image . Presses Univ. du Mirail, 1999, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Chema Pérez Manrique: Le cinéma de Montxo Armendariz: arrêt sur image . Presses Univ. du Mirail, 1999, pp. 18-19.
  7. ↑ Chema Pérez Manrique: Le cinéma de Montxo Armendariz: arrêt sur image . Presses Univ. du Mirail, 1999, p. 19.
  8. ↑ Chema Pérez Manrique: Le cinéma de Montxo Armendariz: arrêt sur image . Presses Univ. du Mirail, 1999, p. 20.
  9. ↑ Montxo Armendáriz filmed “Obabakoak” by Bernardo Atxaga ( memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unionsverlag.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . unionsverlag.com
  10. ^ Jaume Martí-Olivella: Basque Cinema: An Introduction . University of Nevada Press, 2003, p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Armendáriz, Montxo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armendariz Barrios, Juan Ramón (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basque film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Olleta , Navarre